The AI development space is progressing at an exponential rate. We see it every day at Helicone—over 90 % of our users run 5 + LLMs in production, each with its own SDK, auth scheme, rate limits, and quirks.Keeping up today means rewriting integrations for every new model, managing a maze of API keys, engineering custom fallbacks for provider outages, and constantly tuning traffic for cost or compliance.Helicone AI Gateway is our answer. It is a lightweight Rust router inspired by NGINX that removes the integration tax so you can focus on shipping features.